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  <div class="section" id="upgrading-from-2-2-x-to-3-0-x">
<h1>Upgrading from 2.2.x to 3.0.x<a class="headerlink" href="#upgrading-from-2-2-x-to-3-0-x" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Before performing an update you should take your site offline by replacing the index.php file with a static one.</p>
<div class="section" id="step-1-update-your-codeigniter-files">
<h2>Step 1: Update your CodeIgniter files<a class="headerlink" href="#step-1-update-your-codeigniter-files" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><strong>Replace</strong> all files and directories in your <em>system/</em> directory and
replace your index.php file. If any modifications were made to your
index.php they will need to be made fresh in this new one.</p>
<div class="admonition important">
<p class="first admonition-title">Important</p>
<p class="last">You have to delete the old <em>system/</em> directory first and
then put the new one in its place. A simple copy-paste may cause
issues.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">If you have any custom developed files in these folders please
make copies of them first.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-2-update-your-classes-file-names">
<h2>Step 2: Update your classes file names<a class="headerlink" href="#step-2-update-your-classes-file-names" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Starting with CodeIgniter 3.0, all class filenames (libraries, drivers, controllers
and models) must be named in a Ucfirst-like manner or in other words - they must
start with a capital letter.</p>
<p>For example, if you have the following library file:</p>
<blockquote>
<div>application/libraries/mylibrary.php</div></blockquote>
<p>... then you&#8217;ll have to rename it to:</p>
<blockquote>
<div>application/libraries/Mylibrary.php</div></blockquote>
<p>The same goes for driver libraries and extensions and/or overrides of CodeIgniter&#8217;s
own libraries and core classes.</p>
<blockquote>
<div>application/libraries/MY_email.php
application/core/MY_log.php</div></blockquote>
<p>The above files should respectively be renamed to the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<div>application/libraries/MY_Email.php
application/core/MY_Log.php</div></blockquote>
<p>Controllers:</p>
<blockquote>
<div>application/controllers/welcome.php     -&gt;      application/controllers/Welcome.php</div></blockquote>
<p>Models:</p>
<blockquote>
<div>application/models/misc_model.php       -&gt;      application/models/Misc_model.php</div></blockquote>
<p>Please note that this DOES NOT affect directories, configuration files, views,
helpers, hooks and anything else - it is only applied to classes.</p>
<p>You must now follow just one simple rule - class names in Ucfirst and everything else
in lowercase.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-3-replace-config-mimes-php">
<h2>Step 3: Replace config/mimes.php<a class="headerlink" href="#step-3-replace-config-mimes-php" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>This config file has been updated to contain more user mime-types, please copy
it to <em>application/config/mimes.php</em>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-4-remove-autoload-core-from-your-config-autoload-php">
<h2>Step 4: Remove $autoload[&#8216;core&#8217;] from your config/autoload.php<a class="headerlink" href="#step-4-remove-autoload-core-from-your-config-autoload-php" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Use of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$autoload['core']</span></tt> config array has been deprecated as of CodeIgniter 1.4.1 and is now removed.
Move any entries that you might have listed there to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$autoload['libraries']</span></tt> instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-5-move-your-log-class-overrides-or-extensions">
<h2>Step 5: Move your Log class overrides or extensions<a class="headerlink" href="#step-5-move-your-log-class-overrides-or-extensions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The Log Class is considered as a &#8220;core&#8221; class and is now located in the
<strong>system/core/</strong> directory. Therefore, in order for your Log class overrides
or extensions to work, you need to move them to <strong>application/core/</strong>:</p>
<blockquote>
<div>application/libraries/Log.php -&gt; application/core/Log.php
application/libraries/MY_Log.php -&gt; application/core/MY_Log.php</div></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-6-update-your-session-library-usage">
<h2>Step 6: Update your Session library usage<a class="headerlink" href="#step-6-update-your-session-library-usage" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/sessions.html"><em>Session Library</em></a> has been completely
re-written in CodeIgniter 3 and now comes with a bunch of new features,
but that also means that there are changes that you should make ...</p>
<p>Most notably, the library now uses separate storage drivers instead of
always relying on (encrypted) cookies.
In fact, cookies as storage have now been removed and you must always use
some kind of server-side storage engine, with the file-system being the
default option.</p>
<p>The Session Class now utilizes PHP&#8217;s own mechanisms for building custom
session handlers, which also means that your session data is now
accessible via the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$_SESSION</span></tt> superglobal (though, we&#8217;ve kept the
possibility to use it as &#8220;userdata&#8221;, like you&#8217;ve done until now).</p>
<p>A few configuration options have been removed and a few have been added.
You should really read the whole <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/sessions.html"><em>Session library manual</em></a> for the details, but here&#8217;s a short list of changes
that you should make:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul>
<li><p class="first">Set your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_driver']</span></tt> value</p>
<p>It will default to &#8216;files&#8217;, unles you&#8217;ve previously used
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_use_database']</span></tt>, in which case it will be set to
&#8216;database&#8217;.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Set a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_save_path']</span></tt> value</p>
<p>For the &#8216;database&#8217; driver, a fallback to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_table_name']</span></tt>
is in place, but otherwise requires you to read the manual for the
specific driver of your choice.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Update your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ci_sessions</span></tt> table (&#8216;database&#8217; driver only)</p>
<p>The table structure has changed a bit, and more specifically:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">session_id</span></tt> field is renamed to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">id</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_agent</span></tt> field is dropped</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user_data</span></tt> field is renamed to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">data</span></tt> and under MySQL is now of type BLOB</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">last_activity</span></tt> field is renamed to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">timestamp</span></tt></li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<p>This is accompanied by a slight change in the table indexes too, so
please read the manual about the <a class="reference external" href="../libraries/sessions.html#database-driver">Session Database Driver</a> for more information.</p>
<div class="admonition important">
<p class="first admonition-title">Important</p>
<p class="last">Only MySQL and PostgreSQL are officially supported
now. Other databases may still work, but due to lack of advisory
locking features, they are unsafe for concurrent requests and
you should consider using another driver instead.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Remove <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_match_useragent']</span></tt></p>
<p>The user-agent string is input supplied by the user&#8217;s browser, or in
other words: client side input. As such, it is an ineffective feature
and hence why it has been removed.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Remove <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_encrypt_cookie']</span></tt></p>
<p>As already noted, the library no longer uses cookies as a storage
mechanism, which renders this option useless.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Remove <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_expire_on_close']</span></tt></p>
<p>This option is still usable, but only for backwards compatibility
purposes and it should be otherwise removed. The same effect is
achieved by setting <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['sess_expiration']</span></tt> to 0.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Check &#8220;flashdata&#8221; for collisions with &#8220;userdata&#8221;</p>
<p>Flashdata is now just regular &#8220;userdata&#8221;, only marked for deletion on
the next request. In other words: you can&#8217;t have both &#8220;userdata&#8221; and
&#8220;flashdata&#8221; with the same name, because it&#8217;s the same thing.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Check usage of session metadata</p>
<p>Previously, you could access the &#8216;session_id&#8217;, &#8216;ip_address&#8217;,
&#8216;user_agent&#8217; and &#8216;last_activity&#8217; metadata items as userdata.
This is no longer possible, and you should read the notes about
<a class="reference external" href="../libraries/sessions.html#accessing-session-metadata">Session Metadata</a>
if your application relies on those values.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Check <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">unset_userdata()</span></tt> usage</p>
<p>Previously, this method used to accept an associative array of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'key'</span> <span class="pre">=&gt;</span> <span class="pre">'dummy</span> <span class="pre">value'</span></tt> pairs for unsetting multiple keys. That
however makes no sense and you now have to pass <em>only</em> the keys, as
the elements of an array.</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c1">// Old</span>
<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">session</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">unset_userdata</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;item&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;item2&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">));</span>

<span class="c1">// New</span>
<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">session</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">unset_userdata</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;item&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;item2&#39;</span><span class="p">));</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Finally, if you have written a Session extension, you must now move it to
the <em>application/libraries/Session/</em> directory, although chances are that
it will now also have to be re-factored.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-7-update-your-config-database-php">
<h2>Step 7: Update your config/database.php<a class="headerlink" href="#step-7-update-your-config-database-php" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Due to 3.0.0&#8217;s renaming of Active Record to Query Builder, inside your
<strong>config/database.php</strong>, you will need to rename the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$active_record</span></tt>
variable to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$query_builder</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$active_group</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;default&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="c1">// $active_record = TRUE;</span>
<span class="nv">$query_builder</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">TRUE</span><span class="p">;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-8-replace-your-error-templates">
<h2>Step 8: Replace your error templates<a class="headerlink" href="#step-8-replace-your-error-templates" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In CodeIgniter 3.0, the error templates are now considered as views and have been moved to the
<em>application/views/errors</em> directory.</p>
<p>Furthermore, we&#8217;ve added support for CLI error templates in plain-text format that unlike HTML,
is suitable for the command line. This of course requires another level of separation.</p>
<p>It is safe to move your old templates from <em>application/errors</em> to <em>application/views/errors/html</em>,
but you&#8217;ll have to copy the new <em>application/views/errors/cli</em> directory from the CodeIgniter archive.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-9-update-your-config-routes-php-file">
<h2>Step 9: Update your config/routes.php file<a class="headerlink" href="#step-9-update-your-config-routes-php-file" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="routes-containing-any">
<h3>Routes containing :any<a class="headerlink" href="#routes-containing-any" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Historically, CodeIgniter has always provided the <strong>:any</strong> wildcard in
routing, with the intention of providing a way to match any character
<strong>within</strong> an URI segment.</p>
<p>However, the <strong>:any</strong> wildcard is actually just an alias for a regular
expression and used to be executed in that manner as <strong>.+</strong>. This is
considered a bug, as it also matches the / (forward slash) character, which
is the URI segment delimiter and that was never the intention.</p>
<p>In CodeIgniter 3, the <strong>:any</strong> wildcard will now represent <strong>[^/]+</strong>, so
that it will not match a forward slash.</p>
<p>There are certainly many developers that have utilized this bug as an actual
feature. If you&#8217;re one of them and want to match a forward slash, please use
the <strong>.+</strong> regular expression:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">.+</span><span class="p">)</span>    <span class="c1">// matches ANYTHING</span>
<span class="p">(</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="nx">any</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c1">// matches any character, except for &#39;/&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="directories-and-default-controller-404-override">
<h3>Directories and &#8216;default_controller&#8217;, &#8216;404_override&#8217;<a class="headerlink" href="#directories-and-default-controller-404-override" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>As you should know, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$route['default_controller']</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$route['404_override']</span></tt> settings accept not only a controller name, but
also <em>controller/method</em> pairs. However, a bug in the routing logic has
made it possible for some users to use that as <em>directory/controller</em>
instead.</p>
<p>As already said, this behavior was incidental and was never intended, nor
documented. If you&#8217;ve relied on it, your application will break with
CodeIgniter 3.0.</p>
<p>Another notable change in version 3 is that &#8216;default_controller&#8217; and
&#8216;404_override&#8217; are now applied <em>per directory</em>. To explain what this means,
let&#8217;s take the following example:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$route</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;default_controller&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;main&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Now, assuming that your website is located at <em>example.com</em>, you already
know that if a user visits <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">http://example.com/</span></tt>, the above setting will
cause your &#8216;Main&#8217; controller to be loaded.</p>
<p>However, what happens if you have an <em>application/controllers/admin/</em>
directory and the user visits <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">http://example.com/admin/</span></tt>?
In CodeIgniter 3, the router will look for a &#8216;Main&#8217; controller under the
admin/ directory as well. If not found, a Not Found (404) will be triggered.</p>
<p>The same rule applies to the &#8216;404_override&#8217; setting.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-10-many-functions-now-return-null-instead-of-false-on-missing-items">
<h2>Step 10: Many functions now return NULL instead of FALSE on missing items<a class="headerlink" href="#step-10-many-functions-now-return-null-instead-of-false-on-missing-items" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Many methods and functions now return NULL instead of FALSE when the required items don&#8217;t exist:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../general/common_functions.html"><em>Common functions</em></a><ul>
<li>config_item()</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/config.html"><em>Config Class</em></a><ul>
<li>config-&gt;item()</li>
<li>config-&gt;slash_item()</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/input.html"><em>Input Class</em></a><ul>
<li>input-&gt;get()</li>
<li>input-&gt;post()</li>
<li>input-&gt;get_post()</li>
<li>input-&gt;cookie()</li>
<li>input-&gt;server()</li>
<li>input-&gt;input_stream()</li>
<li>input-&gt;get_request_header()</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/sessions.html"><em>Session Class</em></a><ul>
<li>session-&gt;userdata()</li>
<li>session-&gt;flashdata()</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/uri.html"><em>URI Class</em></a><ul>
<li>uri-&gt;segment()</li>
<li>uri-&gt;rsegment()</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/array_helper.html"><em>Array Helper</em></a><ul>
<li>element()</li>
<li>elements()</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-11-usage-of-xss-filtering">
<h2>Step 11: Usage of XSS filtering<a class="headerlink" href="#step-11-usage-of-xss-filtering" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Many functions in CodeIgniter allow you to use its XSS filtering feature
on demand by passing a boolean parameter. The default value of that
parameter used to be boolean FALSE, but it is now changed to NULL and it
will be dynamically determined by your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['global_xss_filtering']</span></tt>
value.</p>
<p>If you used to manually pass a boolean value for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$xss_filter</span></tt>
parameter or if you&#8217;ve always had <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['global_xss_filtering']</span></tt> set
to FALSE, then this change doesn&#8217;t concern you.</p>
<p>Otherwise however, please review your usage of the following functions:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/input.html"><em>Input Library</em></a><ul>
<li>input-&gt;get()</li>
<li>input-&gt;post()</li>
<li>input-&gt;get_post()</li>
<li>input-&gt;cookie()</li>
<li>input-&gt;server()</li>
<li>input-&gt;input_stream()</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/cookie_helper.html"><em>Cookie Helper</em></a> <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/cookie_helper.html#get_cookie" title="get_cookie"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_cookie()</span></tt></a></li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<div class="admonition important">
<p class="first admonition-title">Important</p>
<p class="last">Another related change is that the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$_GET</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$_POST</span></tt>,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$_COOKIE</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$_SERVER</span></tt> superglobals are no longer
automatically overwritten when global XSS filtering is turned on.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-12-check-for-potential-xss-issues-with-uris">
<h2>Step 12: Check for potential XSS issues with URIs<a class="headerlink" href="#step-12-check-for-potential-xss-issues-with-uris" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/uri.html"><em>URI Library</em></a> used to automatically convert
a certain set of &#8220;programmatic characters&#8221; to HTML entities when they
are encountered in a URI segment.</p>
<p>This was aimed at providing some automatic XSS protection, in addition
to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['permitted_uri_chars']</span></tt> setting, but has proven to be
problematic and is now removed in CodeIgniter 3.0.</p>
<p>If your application has relied on this feature, you should update it to
filter URI segments through <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$this-&gt;security-&gt;xss_clean()</span></tt> whenever you
output them.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-13-check-for-usage-of-the-xss-clean-form-validation-rule">
<h2>Step 13: Check for usage of the &#8216;xss_clean&#8217; Form validation rule<a class="headerlink" href="#step-13-check-for-usage-of-the-xss-clean-form-validation-rule" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>A largely unknown rule about XSS cleaning is that it should <em>only be
applied to output</em>, as opposed to input data.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve made that mistake ourselves with our automatic and global XSS cleaning
feature (see previous step about XSS above), so now in an effort to discourage that
practice, we&#8217;re also removing &#8216;xss_clean&#8217; from the officially supported
list of <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/form_validation.html"><em>form validation</em></a> rules.</p>
<p>Because the <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/form_validation.html"><em>Form Validation library</em></a>
generally validates <em>input</em> data, the &#8216;xss_clean&#8217; rule simply doesn&#8217;t
belong in it.</p>
<p>If you really, really need to apply that rule, you should now also load the
<a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/security_helper.html"><em>Security Helper</em></a>, which contains
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xss_clean()</span></tt> as a regular function and therefore can be also used as
a validation rule.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-14-update-usage-of-input-class-s-get-post-method">
<h2>Step 14: Update usage of Input Class&#8217;s get_post() method<a class="headerlink" href="#step-14-update-usage-of-input-class-s-get-post-method" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Previously, the <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/input.html"><em>Input Class</em></a> method <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_post()</span></tt>
was searching first in POST data, then in GET data. This method has been
modified so that it searches in GET then in POST, as its name suggests.</p>
<p>A method has been added, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">post_get()</span></tt>, which searches in POST then in GET, as
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_post()</span></tt> was doing before.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-15-update-usage-of-directory-helper-s-directory-map-function">
<h2>Step 15: Update usage of Directory Helper&#8217;s directory_map() function<a class="headerlink" href="#step-15-update-usage-of-directory-helper-s-directory-map-function" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In the resulting array, directories now end with a trailing directory
separator (i.e. a slash, usually).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-16-update-usage-of-database-forge-s-drop-table-method">
<h2>Step 16: Update usage of Database Forge&#8217;s drop_table() method<a class="headerlink" href="#step-16-update-usage-of-database-forge-s-drop-table-method" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Up until now, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">drop_table()</span></tt> added an IF EXISTS clause by default or it didn&#8217;t work
at all with some drivers. In CodeIgniter 3.0, the IF EXISTS condition is no longer added
by default and has an optional second parameter that allows that instead and is set to
FALSE by default.</p>
<p>If your application relies on IF EXISTS, you&#8217;ll have to change its usage.</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c1">// Now produces just DROP TABLE `table_name`</span>
<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">dbforge</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">drop_table</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;table_name&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>

<span class="c1">// Produces DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `table_name`</span>
<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">dbforge</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">drop_table</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;table_name&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">TRUE</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The given example uses MySQL-specific syntax, but it should work across
all drivers with the exception of ODBC.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-17-change-usage-of-email-library-with-multiple-emails">
<h2>Step 17: Change usage of Email library with multiple emails<a class="headerlink" href="#step-17-change-usage-of-email-library-with-multiple-emails" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/email.html"><em>Email Library</em></a> will automatically clear the
set parameters after successfully sending emails. To override this behaviour,
pass FALSE as the first parameter in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">send()</span></tt> method:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">email</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">send</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">FALSE</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="c1">// Parameters won&#39;t be cleared</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-18-update-your-form-validation-language-lines">
<h2>Step 18: Update your Form_validation language lines<a class="headerlink" href="#step-18-update-your-form-validation-language-lines" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Two improvements have been made to the <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/form_validation.html"><em>Form Validation Library</em></a>&#8216;s <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/language.html"><em>language</em></a>
files and error messages format:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul>
<li><p class="first"><a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/language.html"><em>Language Library</em></a> line keys now must be
prefixed with <strong>form_validation_</strong> in order to avoid collisions:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c1">// Old</span>
<span class="nv">$lang</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;rule&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span>

<span class="c1">// New</span>
<span class="nv">$lang</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;form_validation_rule&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The error messages format has been changed to use named parameters, to
allow more flexibility than what <cite>sprintf()</cite> offers:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c1">// Old</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;The %s field does not match the %s field.&#39;</span>

<span class="c1">// New</span>
<span class="s1">&#39;The {field} field does not match the {param} field.&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The old formatting still works, but the non-prefixed line keys
are DEPRECATED and scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.
Therefore you&#8217;re encouraged to update its usage sooner rather than
later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-19-make-sure-your-base-url-config-value-is-not-empty">
<h2>Step 19: Make sure your &#8216;base_url&#8217; config value is not empty<a class="headerlink" href="#step-19-make-sure-your-base-url-config-value-is-not-empty" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>When <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['base_url']</span></tt> is not set, CodeIgniter tries to automatically
detect what your website&#8217;s base URL is. This is done purely for convenience
when you are starting development of a new application.</p>
<p>Auto-detection is never reliable and also has security implications, which
is why you should <strong>always</strong> have it manually configured!</p>
<p>One of the changes in CodeIgniter 3.0.3 is how this auto-detection works,
and more specifically it now falls back to the server&#8217;s IP address instead
of the hostname requested by the client. Therefore, if you&#8217;ve ever relied
on auto-detection, it will change how your website works now.</p>
<p>In case you need to allow e.g. multiple domains, or both <a class="reference external" href="http://">http://</a> and
<a class="reference external" href="https://">https://</a> prefixes to be dynamically used depending on the request,
remember that <em>application/config/config.php</em> is still a PHP script, in
which you can create this logic with a few lines of code. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$allowed_domains</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;domain1.tld&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;domain2.tld&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nv">$default_domain</span>  <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;domain1.tld&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>

<span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">in_array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$_SERVER</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;HTTP_HOST&#39;</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="nv">$allowed_domains</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">TRUE</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="nv">$domain</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$_SERVER</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;HTTP_HOST&#39;</span><span class="p">];</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="k">else</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="nv">$domain</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$default_domain</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>

<span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="o">!</span> <span class="k">empty</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$_SERVER</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;HTTPS&#39;</span><span class="p">]))</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="nv">$config</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;base_url&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;https://&#39;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="nv">$domain</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="k">else</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="nv">$config</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;base_url&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;http://&#39;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="nv">$domain</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-20-remove-usage-of-previously-deprecated-functionalities">
<h2>Step 20: Remove usage of (previously) deprecated functionalities<a class="headerlink" href="#step-20-remove-usage-of-previously-deprecated-functionalities" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In addition to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$autoload['core']</span></tt> configuration setting, there&#8217;s a
number of other functionalities that have been removed in CodeIgniter 3.0.0:</p>
<div class="section" id="the-sha1-library">
<h3>The SHA1 library<a class="headerlink" href="#the-sha1-library" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The previously deprecated SHA1 library has been removed, alter your code to use PHP&#8217;s native
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sha1()</span></tt> function to generate a SHA1 hash.</p>
<p>Additionally, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sha1()</span></tt> method in the <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/encrypt.html"><em>Encrypt Library</em></a> has been removed.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-ext-constant">
<h3>The EXT constant<a class="headerlink" href="#the-ext-constant" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Usage of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">EXT</span></tt> constant has been deprecated since dropping support for PHP 4. There&#8217;s no
longer a need to maintain different filename extensions and in this new CodeIgniter version,
the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">EXT</span></tt> constant has been removed. Use just &#8216;.php&#8217; instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="smiley-helper">
<h3>Smiley helper<a class="headerlink" href="#smiley-helper" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/smiley_helper.html"><em>Smiley Helper</em></a> is a legacy feature from EllisLab&#8217;s
ExpressionEngine product. However, it is too specific for a general purpose framework like
CodeIgniter and as such it is now deprecated.</p>
<p>Also, the previously deprecated <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">js_insert_smiley()</span></tt> (since version 1.7.2) is now removed.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-encrypt-library">
<h3>The Encrypt library<a class="headerlink" href="#the-encrypt-library" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Following numerous vulnerability reports, the <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/encrypt.html"><em>Encrypt Library</em></a> has
been deprecated and a new, <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/encryption.html"><em>Encryption Library</em></a> is added to take
its place.</p>
<p>The new library requires either the <a class="reference external" href="http://php.net/mcrypt">MCrypt extension</a> (and /dev/urandom
availability) or PHP 5.3.3 and the <a class="reference external" href="http://php.net/openssl">OpenSSL extension</a>.
While this might be rather inconvenient, it is a requirement that allows us to have properly
implemented cryptographic functions.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/encrypt.html"><em>Encrypt Library</em></a> is still available for the purpose
of keeping backwards compatibility.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition important">
<p class="first admonition-title">Important</p>
<p class="last">You are strongly encouraged to switch to the new <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/encryption.html"><em>Encryption Library</em></a> as soon as possible!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-cart-library">
<h3>The Cart library<a class="headerlink" href="#the-cart-library" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/cart.html"><em>Cart Library</em></a>, similarly to the <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/smiley_helper.html"><em>Smiley Helper</em></a> is too specific for CodeIgniter. It is now deprecated
and scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The library is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage sooner
rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="database-drivers-mysql-sqlite-mssql-pdo-dblib">
<h3>Database drivers &#8216;mysql&#8217;, &#8216;sqlite&#8217;, &#8216;mssql&#8217;, &#8216;pdo/dblib&#8217;<a class="headerlink" href="#database-drivers-mysql-sqlite-mssql-pdo-dblib" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <strong>mysql</strong> driver utilizes the old &#8216;mysql&#8217; PHP extension, known for its aging code base and
many low-level problems. The extension is deprecated as of PHP 5.5 and CodeIgniter deprecates
it in version 3.0, switching the default configured MySQL driver to <strong>mysqli</strong>.</p>
<p>Please use either the &#8216;mysqli&#8217; or &#8216;pdo/mysql&#8217; drivers for MySQL. The old &#8216;mysql&#8217; driver will be
removed at some point in the future.</p>
<p>The <strong>sqlite</strong>, <strong>mssql</strong> and <strong>pdo/dblib</strong> (also known as pdo/mssql or pdo/sybase) drivers
all depend on PHP extensions that for different reasons no longer exist since PHP 5.3.</p>
<p>Therefore we are now deprecating these drivers as we will have to remove them in one of the next
CodeIgniter versions. You should use the more advanced, <strong>sqlite3</strong>, <strong>sqlsrv</strong> or <strong>pdo/sqlsrv</strong>
drivers respectively.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These drivers are still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to switch to other ones
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="security-helper-do-hash">
<h3>Security helper do_hash()<a class="headerlink" href="#security-helper-do-hash" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/security_helper.html"><em>Security Helper</em></a> function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">do_hash()</span></tt> is now just an alias for
PHP&#8217;s native <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">hash()</span></tt> function. It is deprecated and scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This function is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage sooner
rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-config-global-xss-filtering-setting">
<h3>The $config[&#8216;global_xss_filtering&#8217;] setting<a class="headerlink" href="#the-config-global-xss-filtering-setting" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>As already explained above, XSS filtering should not be done on input data,
but on output instead. Therefore, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['global_xss_filtering']</span></tt>,
which automatically filters <em>input</em> data, is considered a bad practice and
is now deprecated.</p>
<p>Instead, you should manually escape any user-provided data via the
<a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/security_helper.html#xss_clean" title="xss_clean"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">xss_clean()</span></tt></a> function when you need to output it, or use a
library like <a class="reference external" href="http://htmlpurifier.org/">HTML Purifier</a> that does that
for you.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The setting is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to
remove its usage sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="file-helper-read-file">
<h3>File helper read_file()<a class="headerlink" href="#file-helper-read-file" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/file_helper.html"><em>File Helper</em></a> function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">read_file()</span></tt> is now just an alias for
PHP&#8217;s native <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">file_get_contents()</span></tt> function. It is deprecated and scheduled for removal in
CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This function is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage sooner
rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="string-helper-repeater">
<h3>String helper repeater()<a class="headerlink" href="#string-helper-repeater" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/string_helper.html"><em>String Helper</em></a> function <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/string_helper.html#repeater" title="repeater"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">repeater()</span></tt></a> is now just an alias for
PHP&#8217;s native <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">str_repeat()</span></tt> function. It is deprecated and scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This function is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage sooner
rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="string-helper-trim-slashes">
<h3>String helper trim_slashes()<a class="headerlink" href="#string-helper-trim-slashes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/string_helper.html"><em>String Helper</em></a> function <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/string_helper.html#trim_slashes" title="trim_slashes"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">trim_slashes()</span></tt></a> is now just an alias
for PHP&#8217;s native <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">trim()</span></tt> function (with a slash passed as its second argument). It is deprecated and
scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This function is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage sooner
rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="form-helper-form-prep">
<h3>Form helper form_prep()<a class="headerlink" href="#form-helper-form-prep" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/form_helper.html"><em>Form Helper</em></a> function <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/form_helper.html#form_prep" title="form_prep"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">form_prep()</span></tt></a>
is now just an alias for <a class="reference internal" href="../general/common_functions.html"><em>common function</em></a>
<tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">html_escape()</span></tt>. It is deprecated and will be removed in the future.</p>
<p>Please use <a class="reference internal" href="../general/common_functions.html#html_escape" title="html_escape"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">html_escape()</span></tt></a> instead.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This function is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged
to remove its usage sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="email-helper-functions">
<h3>Email helper functions<a class="headerlink" href="#email-helper-functions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/email_helper.html"><em>Email Helper</em></a> only has two functions</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/email_helper.html#valid_email" title="valid_email"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">valid_email()</span></tt></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/email_helper.html#send_email" title="send_email"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">send_email()</span></tt></a></li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Both of them are now aliases for PHP&#8217;s native <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filter_var()</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mail()</span></tt> functions, respectively.
Therefore the <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/email_helper.html"><em>Email Helper</em></a> altogether is being deprecated and
is scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These functions are still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove their usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="date-helper-standard-date">
<h3>Date helper standard_date()<a class="headerlink" href="#date-helper-standard-date" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/date_helper.html"><em>Date Helper</em></a> function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">standard_date()</span></tt> is being deprecated due
to the availability of native PHP <a class="reference external" href="http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.types">constants</a>,
which when combined with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">date()</span></tt> provide the same functionality. Furthermore, they have the
exact same names as the ones supported by <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">standard_date()</span></tt>. Here are examples of how to replace
its usage:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c1">// Old way</span>
<span class="nx">standard_date</span><span class="p">();</span> <span class="c1">// defaults to standard_date(&#39;DATE_RFC822&#39;, now());</span>

<span class="c1">// Replacement</span>
<span class="nb">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">DATE_RFC822</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">now</span><span class="p">());</span>

<span class="c1">// Old way</span>
<span class="nx">standard_date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;DATE_ATOM&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$time</span><span class="p">);</span>

<span class="c1">// Replacement</span>
<span class="nb">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">DATE_ATOM</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$time</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This function is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage sooner
rather than later as it is scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="html-helpers-nbs-br">
<h3>HTML helpers nbs(), br()<a class="headerlink" href="#html-helpers-nbs-br" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/html_helper.html"><em>HTML Helper</em></a> functions <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nbs()</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">br()</span></tt> are just aliases
for the native <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">str_repeat()</span></tt> function used with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&amp;nbsp;</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;br</span> <span class="pre">&gt;</span></tt> respectively.</p>
<p>Because there&#8217;s no point in just aliasing native PHP functions, they are now deprecated and
scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These functions are still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove their usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="pagination-library-anchor-class-setting">
<h3>Pagination library &#8216;anchor_class&#8217; setting<a class="headerlink" href="#pagination-library-anchor-class-setting" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/pagination.html"><em>Pagination Library</em></a> now supports adding pretty much any HTML
attribute to your anchors via the &#8216;attributes&#8217; configuration setting. This includes passing the
&#8216;class&#8217; attribute and using the separate &#8216;anchor_class&#8217; setting no longer makes sense.
As a result of that, the &#8216;anchor_class&#8217; setting is now deprecated and scheduled for removal in
CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This setting is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage sooner
rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="string-helper-random-string-types-unique-and-encrypt">
<h3>String helper random_string() types &#8216;unique&#8217; and &#8216;encrypt&#8217;<a class="headerlink" href="#string-helper-random-string-types-unique-and-encrypt" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>When using the <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/string_helper.html"><em>String Helper</em></a> function <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/string_helper.html#random_string" title="random_string"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">random_string()</span></tt></a>,
you should no longer pass the <strong>unique</strong> and <strong>encrypt</strong> randomization types. They are only
aliases for <strong>md5</strong> and <strong>sha1</strong> respectively and are now deprecated and scheduled for removal
in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These options are still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove their usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="url-helper-url-title-separators-dash-and-underscore">
<h3>URL helper url_title() separators &#8216;dash&#8217; and &#8216;underscore&#8217;<a class="headerlink" href="#url-helper-url-title-separators-dash-and-underscore" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>When using the <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/url_helper.html"><em>URL Helper</em></a> function <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/url_helper.html#url_title" title="url_title"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">url_title()</span></tt></a>, you
should no longer pass <strong>dash</strong> or <strong>underscore</strong> as the word separator. This function will
now accept any character and you should just pass the chosen character directly, so you
should write &#8216;-&#8216; instead of &#8216;dash&#8217; and &#8216;_&#8217; instead of &#8216;underscore&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>dash</strong> and <strong>underscore</strong> now act as aliases and are deprecated and scheduled for removal
in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These options are still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove their usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="session-library-method-all-userdata">
<h3>Session Library method all_userdata()<a class="headerlink" href="#session-library-method-all-userdata" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>As seen in the <a class="reference internal" href="../changelog.html"><em>Change Log</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/sessions.html"><em>Session Library</em></a>
method <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">userdata()</span></tt> now allows you to fetch all userdata by simply omitting its parameter:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">session</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">userdata</span><span class="p">();</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This makes the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">all_userdata()</span></tt> method redudant and therefore it is now just an alias for
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">userdata()</span></tt> with the above shown usage and is being deprecated and scheduled for removal
in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This method is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="database-forge-method-add-column-with-an-after-clause">
<h3>Database Forge method add_column() with an AFTER clause<a class="headerlink" href="#database-forge-method-add-column-with-an-after-clause" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you have used the <strong>third parameter</strong> for <a class="reference internal" href="../database/forge.html"><em>Database Forge</em></a> method
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">add_column()</span></tt> to add a field for an AFTER clause, then you should change its usage.</p>
<p>That third parameter has been deprecated and scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<p>You should now put AFTER clause field names in the field definition array instead:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c1">// Old usage:</span>
<span class="nv">$field</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="s1">&#39;new_field&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;type&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;TEXT&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">);</span>

<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">dbforge</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">add_column</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;table_name&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$field</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;another_field&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>

<span class="c1">// New usage:</span>
<span class="nv">$field</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="s1">&#39;new_field&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;type&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;TEXT&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;after&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="s1">&#39;another_field&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">);</span>

<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">dbforge</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">add_column</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;table_name&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$field</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The parameter is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This is for MySQL and CUBRID databases only! Other drivers don&#8217;t support this
clause and will silently ignore it.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="uri-routing-methods-fetch-directory-fetch-class-fetch-method">
<h3>URI Routing methods fetch_directory(), fetch_class(), fetch_method()<a class="headerlink" href="#uri-routing-methods-fetch-directory-fetch-class-fetch-method" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>With properties <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Router::$directory</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Router::$class</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Router::$method</span></tt>
being public and their respective <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fetch_*()</span></tt> no longer doing anything else to just return
the properties - it doesn&#8217;t make sense to keep them.</p>
<p>Those are all internal, undocumented methods, but we&#8217;ve opted to deprecate them for now
in order to maintain backwards-compatibility just in case. If some of you have utilized them,
then you can now just access the properties instead:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">router</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">directory</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">router</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">class</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">router</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">method</span><span class="p">;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Those methods are still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove their usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="input-library-method-is-cli-request">
<h3>Input library method is_cli_request()<a class="headerlink" href="#input-library-method-is-cli-request" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Calls to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Input::is_cli_request()</span></tt> method are necessary at many places
in the CodeIgniter internals and this is often before the <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/input.html"><em>Input Library</em></a> is loaded. Because of that, it is being replaced by a common
function named <a class="reference internal" href="../general/common_functions.html#is_cli" title="is_cli"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">is_cli()</span></tt></a> and this method is now just an alias.</p>
<p>The new function is both available at all times for you to use and shorter to type.</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c1">// Old</span>
<span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">input</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">is_cli_request</span><span class="p">();</span>

<span class="c1">// New</span>
<span class="nx">is_cli</span><span class="p">();</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Input::is_cli_request()</span></tt> is now now deprecated and scheduled for removal in
CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This method is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="config-library-method-system-url">
<h3>Config library method system_url()<a class="headerlink" href="#config-library-method-system-url" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Usage of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Config::system_url()</span></tt> encourages insecure coding practices.
Namely, your CodeIgniter <em>system/</em> directory shouldn&#8217;t be publicly accessible
from a security point of view.</p>
<p>Because of this, this method is now deprecated and scheduled for removal in
CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This method is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-javascript-library">
<h4>The Javascript library<a class="headerlink" href="#the-javascript-library" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/javascript.html"><em>Javascript Library</em></a> has always had an
&#8216;experimental&#8217; status and was never really useful, nor a proper solution.</p>
<p>It is now deprecated and scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This library is still available, but you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to remove its usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="step-21-check-your-usage-of-text-helper-highlight-phrase">
<h2>Step 21: Check your usage of Text helper highlight_phrase()<a class="headerlink" href="#step-21-check-your-usage-of-text-helper-highlight-phrase" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The default HTML tag used by <a class="reference internal" href="../helpers/text_helper.html"><em>Text Helper</em></a> function
<tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">highlight_phrase()</span></tt> has been changed from <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;strong&gt;</span></tt> to the new HTML5
tag <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;mark&gt;</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Unless you&#8217;ve used your own highlighting tags, this might cause trouble
for your visitors who use older web browsers such as Internet Explorer 8.
We therefore suggest that you add the following code to your CSS files
in order to avoid backwards compatibility with old browsers:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nx">mark</span> <span class="p">{</span>
        <span class="nx">background</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="c1">#ff0;</span>
        <span class="nx">color</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="c1">#000;</span>
<span class="p">};</span>
</pre></div>
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